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Jezebel Rated

Perhaps the ultimate in Bette's gallery of scarlet women; in one scene, indeed, a scarlet dress she wears to a cotillion ball almost sets the entire plantation afire. A deep-South Civil War melodrama, Jezebel was rushed out by Warners' to steal the thunder from Selznick's mammoth Gone With The Wind publicity machine. For many people, it's better than the film it completed with - including Andre Bazin, who thought Jezebel (along with Stagecoach and Le Jour Se Leve, in the late '30s) showed "the pure symmetry and ripening of classic art ... as perfectly balanced as a wheel..."